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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

John (that's my husband, for you newbies) is an absolute master of sarcasm. This is not a good thing. Half the time even *I* can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not, which has led to more than one tiff around bathing suit season. ("Wow, your butt looks fantastic in that. No, really.")

I think the problem is he's too subtle. If you're going to be sarcastic, and you actually want people to know it, you have to give them some clue. You know, like this:

Is this person really glad you're "here"? No, of course not. Just look at the signs!

And let's not forget the messy handwriting in the first one . . . at first glance, it looked like it said, Glad your "I-pere". (Sorry, I don't know how to really do the quotation marks around a quoted item when said quoted item includes UNNECESSARY quotation marks! (How's that for sarcasm?!)

I am so sorry I missed your Denver signing last night. I wanted to go SO BAD but had a prior commitment. I know you have no idea who I am, but somehow I still feel the need to beg for forgiveness.....A Devoted Readertwoandahalfbooklovers.blogspot.com

On my way to work, I pass a bakery advertising "homemade" cakes. So are they really mass-produced in some nasty dingy thousand-cakes-per-hour factory? Apparently not, the lady behind the counter told me they did that so "the sign will 'speak' to our customers"... eek!

I don't know what's more sad... these wrecks or the fact that my mother-in-law wouldn't see a problem with them. (My son's birthday card was signed, "All Our Love" - and the quotations were really there.)

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I respectfully disagree with your quotation mark interpretation. I think the baker is in fact glad, but it seems that the recipient of this extraordinary creation has missed his or her own party and is not in fact "here." Maybe they needed to rearrange their sock drawer....

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